Joe Bob’s World Drive-In Jamboree

Las Vegas in October? Yes, Joe Bob! 📺🎃 The 3rd annual World Drive-In Movie Festival and Jamboree moves to the West Wind Las Vegas Drive-In this year, with three days of movies, music, live on-stage programming, vendors, dusk-to-dawn sleepovers, camping, barbecues, celebrity guests, cast reunions, and group walking tours led by Joe Bob Briggs, the world’s…

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Vintage horror movie newspaper ads

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Verifying Descent from Salem’s Accused Witches

Presented by David Allen Lambert with American Ancestors/NEHGS Free Webinar – Available on Demand There are hundreds, if not thousands, of court cases and accusations of witchcraft across colonial America, yet the most famous series of prosecutions from this period are the Salem witch trials between 1692 and 1693. In that short period, more than…

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Happy Meal Boo Boxes might be returning in October 2022 👻🎃

Wait, whaaaaaat?! Can this be true? Rumor has it…the return of the Happy Meal Halloween Bucket is coming 🎃 The first Halloween pails were released in 1986. The pails were on hiatus in 1988, but returned with a complete remodel in 1989. Over the years there were several different incarnations of the boo buckets. Since…

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International Edgar Allan Poe Festival In October 📖🎃

The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards returns to Baltimore the weekend of October 8 & 9, 2022! We will see the return of in-person stage, vendors and tours, all proceeds to benefit The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum in Baltimore. Virtual and in-person programs also available this year. This is a huge…

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Playlist of the Day – a very vintage Halloween 🎃

A spooky vintage Halloween music playlist by The Hollywood Scrapbook on YouTube I found this one while searching for vintage Halloween videos and such. It’s really quite a mood and spans the 1920’s – 1960s. Enjoy! The Hollywood Scrapbook’s vintage Halloween music playlist Here’s another music playlist to check out

Persian Demons from a Book of Magic and Astrology (1921)

Weird Persian Demons 🔥 While perusing Public Domain Review, I came across this post chock-full of trippy demon illustrations! Some are rather amusing, to say the least: “These watercolours come from a bound manuscript written by a rammal — or soothsayer — in Isfahan, Iran.” Not all of the 56 painted illustrations in the manuscript…

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Event: The Great JackO’Lantern Blaze 🎃🖤👻

Event information 🎃 Meander through an 18th-century landscape and discover a breathtaking display of more than 7,000 illuminated jack o’ lanterns—all designed and hand-carved on site by a team of artisans. New for 2022, watch our animated “Jack” Smith Shop in action and keep an eye out for glowing bees. Complete with synchronized lighting and…

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You will never trust a smile again. 💀 #promotehorror

Once you see it, it’s too late. Watch the official trailer for #SmileMovie – Only in theatres September 30. You will never trust a smile again… About the movie 🍿 After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. As an overwhelming…

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Rare Edgar Allan Poe Letter Sells at auction for $155,000 📖

A rare Edgar Allan Poe letter extending his condolences to a fellow writer sold for $154,958, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The one-page letter is signed “Edgar A. Poe,” dated August 24, 1846. Addressed from New York, a handwritten letter to writer Frederick William Thomas, who, from 1841 until 1850, worked as a clerk in…

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